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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand musical instrument photography shoot, 7 September 2024. Mostly various types of trombones, and trombone-adjacent instruments (sackbuts, bass trumpets), and a magnificent Selmer bass saxophone.

With a July 2024 grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, I am organising a pilot professional photography session at a studio in Wellington to take good specimen photographs of some rare musical instruments that do not currently have good openly-licensed or public domain images. This will be taking place on Saturday 7 September at Pariwhero Gallery in Owhiro Bay.

Photos will be uploaded to the following Commons category:

Media related to WANZ 2024 instrument photography grant at Wikimedia Commons

The grant will be covering the costs of hiring the studio and photographer, and releasing the images either to the public domain or with a Creative Commons CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license.

On the day

We spent four hours setting up, cleaning and photographing 20 instruments. Results will be uploaded soon! The instruments photographed were:

• Piccolo trombone; Jinbao JBSL-8150 (小号Bb/A)
• Soprano trombone; Jean Baptiste
• Alto trombone; Rath R11
• Alto trombone with B♭ rotary valve; same as above, with detachable valve
• Tenor trombone, no valve, red brass bell, in-slide tuning; Rath R3
• Tenor trombone with F Hagmann valve; R4
• Tenor trombone with F Thayer valve; Vincent Bach 42T, mid 1990s
• Bass trombone with dependent Hagmann valves; Rath R9D
• Bass trombone with dependent (early) Greenhoe valves; S.E. Shires, 1999
• Contrabass trombone in F with valves in D and B♭; Wessex, 2016
• Contrabass trombone in B♭ with double slide F rotary valve; Jinbao
• Cimbasso in F, five rotary valves; Červený, c. 2015
• Alto sackbut in E♭ (D); Ewald Meinl (c. 2020) after 17th century instrument
• Tenor sackbut in B♭ (A); Ewald Meinl (c. 2019) after 17th century instrument
• Bass sackbut in F (E) with slide handle; Ewald Meinl 2020, after instrument by Hainlein, 1631
• Bass sackbut in E♭ (D) with slide handle; same as above with longer E♭ crook
• Bass trumpet in B♭; Vincent Bach, late 1970s(?)
• Bass trumpet in C with four rotary valves; Thein, late 1990s
• Bass saxophone; Selmer

Result highlights

Bass trumpet:

Cimbasso: